MOEAL OF FLOWERS. Cl 
dering the burden easier to bear. And by 
making them participators in our grief, vve lose 
that painful sense of loneliness and desolation 
which ever accompanies the blighting of our 
earthly prospects, and consequent desertion of 
friends, (falsely so called) ; our minds are in¬ 
sensibly drawn to the contemplation of His 
infinite goodness and mercy, who ordaineth all 
things for the best, and suffereth not a sparrow 
to fall to the ground, nor a hair of our heads 
to perish, unnoted. 
We reflect on the many blessings He hath, 
vouchsafed us, all undeserving as we are, and 
taught by the example of the Flowers, whose 
tiny hands are ever clasped in adoration, whose 
breath is ever exhaled as an offering of praise 
to the footstool of their Maker, we become re¬ 
signed, nay, even cheerful, and prompted by 
feelings of gratitude, our thoughts involuntarily 
shape themselves into words of a like significa¬ 
tion to the following :— 
“ 0 flowers that breathe of beauty’s reign, 
In many a tint o’er lawn and lea, 
And give the cold heart once again 
A dream of happier infancy; 
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